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The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Returns Policies and Supply Chain Coordination

The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Returns Policies and Supply Chain Coordination

Gulay Samatli-Pac, Wenjing Shen, Xinxin Hu
Copyright: © 2018 |Volume: 9 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 20
ISSN: 1947-9328|EISSN: 1947-9336|EISBN13: 9781522544630|DOI: 10.4018/IJORIS.2018100101
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Samatli-Pac, Gulay, et al. "The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Returns Policies and Supply Chain Coordination." IJORIS vol.9, no.4 2018: pp.1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJORIS.2018100101

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Samatli-Pac, G., Shen, W., & Hu, X. (2018). The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Returns Policies and Supply Chain Coordination. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS), 9(4), 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJORIS.2018100101

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Samatli-Pac, Gulay, Wenjing Shen, and Xinxin Hu. "The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Returns Policies and Supply Chain Coordination," International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS) 9, no.4: 1-20. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJORIS.2018100101

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Abstract

Product return is a common after-sale service. Existing literature has assumed loss neutral consumers, while in practice consumers are often more sensitive to utility losses than gains, i.e., customers are often loss averse. In this paper, we study the impact of such loss aversion on the retailer's optimal pricing and returns policies. We analyze three scenarios where the seller offers no refund, full refund and partial refund for the returned products. Under each scenario, the seller determines the optimal price, quantity, and refund amount (under partial refund case) in order to maximize the expected profit. Our results demonstrate that consumer loss aversion leads a no-refund retailer to charge lower price and order smaller quantity, has no impact on a full-refund retailer, and results in a more lenient returns policy for a partial-refund retailer. We also find contracts that coordinate supply chains selling to loss averse consumers. Therefore, this article sheds some lights on how the management of returns policies should be adapted when consumers are loss averse.

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